By manually setting back to home position do you mean you release the clutches and rotate it back by hand? If so you don’t want/need to do that as there’s a tick box somewhere that parks the mount at the end of the polar alignment process which basically does that. You can also tell it to park in the mount control tab. Both methods will move it back home. All you need to do then is unpark (in the mount control tab) and tell it where you want to target, then once it’s stopped rotating use the alignment process to refine your pointing.

PS if you don’t unpark things just don’t appear to work which can be quite confusing.

Read More...